Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781402052446
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Metaphysics; Agency; Leibniz; Nested individuals; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophy / Modern; Philosophy : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy : Metaphysics; Possibility; Relations; History & Surveys - General; 17th century; Agent (Philosophy); History; Individuality
Description: "This work presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibniz's approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency; the role of divine agency plays in actualization; moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibniz's notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates."--Jacket.
Notes: The New Synthese Historical Library